"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who only consider the price are this man's lawful prey." - John Ruskin (1819-1900)

Re: un-collapse

When you collapse a section of the timeline, a submaster effect is created. You can step into and out of that submaster clip just like you can any other nested effect to get to the original elements. Just use the up and down arrow key buttons on the timeline toolbar. You can also double click the submaster and have the collapsed layers revealed above the timeline.

Re: un-collapse

I logged a features request for an "uncollapse" function quite a while ago.

I wonder how difficult it would be to convert the current nesting model to a Container model? Instead of Alt drag effect to nest effects something like Alt (new FX button) to open a track based container and have something like the possibilities already existing Avid FX.